The division of Stored and Cooled Ions at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, has an opening for an up to 3-year Ph.D. position in experimental physics.
The Ph.D. candidate will play a key role in setting up a fast (kHz) multi-coincidence fragment imaging detector for the cryogenic ion storage ring CSR. With novel electronic readout techniques to be implemented, the detector will record position and time coordinates for several atomic or molecular particles simultaneously hitting the ~120 mm diam. detector surface. Also methods for analysing the multidimensional coordinates of molecular breakup events will be developed. They will be used to analyse molecular-ion reactions, e.g., dissociative recombination, at temperatures down to 10 K. These reactions play a key role in many environments, such as astrophysical media (e.g. interstellar clouds), tokamak plasmas, and industrial plasmas. An important focus of the research group is laboratory research on gas phase ion reactions, in particular in molecular astrophysics.
The Ph.D candidate will extend the setup, optimize its performance, develop the data acquisition software, and ultimately use the detector to study selected reactions of molecular ions with electrons.
More information can be found at
http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/blaum/positions/phd/imaging-detector-for-csr.en.html
Contacts: Prof. Andreas Wolf Email: [log in to unmask]
Contacts: Dr. Oldrich Novotny Email: [log in to unmask]
More Information: http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/blaum/positions/phd/imaging-detector-for-csr.en.html
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